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THE CHRISTIANA EIOT.
view of the far flung border line and the rapidly increasing development of communication and transmission.
If, however, all the great statesmen, economists and churchmen who had struggled with the slavery question since the formation of the Union were unable to solve it, without the awful carnage of a tremendous and long lasting civil war, can it be the cause of special wonder that a hand¬ ful of Marylanders in lawful search of their escaped prop¬ erty, and a larger group of free and fugitive^ negroes, with the " embattled farmers" who sympathized with them, should have made the hills of this peaceful Chester Valley echo with gun shots and stained its soil with blood, when Man and Master met in final and fatal contest for what each had been taught was his right?
ISTumerous attempts have been made to publish reports of this incident which would serve the purposes of permanent history; and, while they have all been helpful, none has been complete. On his return to Maryland after his failure to convict Hanway and the others of treason, Attorney General Robert J. Brent, of Maryland, made an elaborate ofiicial report to Governor E. Louis Lowe, who in turn submitted it, with extended comments of his own, to the General As¬ sembly of Maryland, January 1, 1852. From the stand¬ point of the lawyer and the chief executive of a slave state, both are able deliverances. Aroused by their version of the afl^air, and especially by their comments on the treason trial, and impatient over the delay in publishing the' ofiicial report of it, W. Arthur Jackson, junior counsel for the defendant, printed a pamphlet review of it, which shows much ability, has great value and has become very rare. The ofiicial pho¬ nographic report of the trial, by James J. Robbins, of the Philadelphia bar (King & Baird, 1852), is of course a copious fountain of exact information — as well as an inter¬ esting exhibit of the " reportorial" efiiciency of that day. From all of these I have felt at liberty to draw largely.

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THE CHRISTIANA EIOT.
view of the far flung border line and the rapidly increasing development of communication and transmission.
If, however, all the great statesmen, economists and churchmen who had struggled with the slavery question since the formation of the Union were unable to solve it, without the awful carnage of a tremendous and long lasting civil war, can it be the cause of special wonder that a hand¬ ful of Marylanders in lawful search of their escaped prop¬ erty, and a larger group of free and fugitive^ negroes, with the " embattled farmers" who sympathized with them, should have made the hills of this peaceful Chester Valley echo with gun shots and stained its soil with blood, when Man and Master met in final and fatal contest for what each had been taught was his right?
ISTumerous attempts have been made to publish reports of this incident which would serve the purposes of permanent history; and, while they have all been helpful, none has been complete. On his return to Maryland after his failure to convict Hanway and the others of treason, Attorney General Robert J. Brent, of Maryland, made an elaborate ofiicial report to Governor E. Louis Lowe, who in turn submitted it, with extended comments of his own, to the General As¬ sembly of Maryland, January 1, 1852. From the stand¬ point of the lawyer and the chief executive of a slave state, both are able deliverances. Aroused by their version of the afl^air, and especially by their comments on the treason trial, and impatient over the delay in publishing the' ofiicial report of it, W. Arthur Jackson, junior counsel for the defendant, printed a pamphlet review of it, which shows much ability, has great value and has become very rare. The ofiicial pho¬ nographic report of the trial, by James J. Robbins, of the Philadelphia bar (King & Baird, 1852), is of course a copious fountain of exact information — as well as an inter¬ esting exhibit of the " reportorial" efiiciency of that day. From all of these I have felt at liberty to draw largely.